The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat), sentence 1

Suddenly he throws down his brush, says «Hang spring-cleaning!» and digs his way up into the sunshine of a big meadow.

Who acts: Mole · What happens: throw down, say, hang, dig up · To what, where: brush, spring cleaning, way · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Wind in the Willows, chapter I, part 1: The River Bank (the Mole leaves his spring-cleaning and meets the Rat)» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mole), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 throws	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 throws	nsubj
3	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 throws	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 brush	nmod:poss
6	brush	brush	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throws	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 says	punct
8	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throws	conj
9	«	«	PUNCT	_	10 Hang	punct
10	Hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 says	ccomp
11	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cleaning	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 cleaning	punct
13	cleaning	cleaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Hang	obj
14	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Hang	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 Hang	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 digs	cc
17	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throws	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 digs	obj
20	up	up	ADV	_	17 digs	advmod
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 sunshine	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sunshine	det
23	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 digs	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 meadow	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 meadow	det
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 meadow	amod
27	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sunshine	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throws	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	throw down	present	Mole	Mole's brush	suddenly property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brush=Theme
2	say speech: express	present	Mole not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hang in a quote	infinitive		spring cleaning		vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleaning=Patient
4	dig up	present	Mole not said here	Mole's way	into the sunshine of a big meadow	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent way=Instrument into sunshine=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:025-willows-ch1-part1-the-mole-meets-the-river.lesson:1.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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